2003 · comedy · music
A Mighty Wind
Directed by Christopher Guest1h 32m2003
Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.
Our read: A Mighty Wind (2003) reads as a cosy, steady, inventive comedy · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / music, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- gentle
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
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“You want gentle folk-mockumentary warmth with earnest losers and harmony that lands.”
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